Well, I’ve been scarce for a while, mostly due to work. Recently while on holiday I was reading up on a great little feature on Windows 7 for speeding up your initial boot time. This is going to be as short and sweet as my boot time which is now 7 seconds…
Situation: You have a bunch of VM’s on a Server 2008 R2 RC instance. The RC expires and dies a horrible death at the hands of the IT manager, who complains for more time than it takes to reinstall the server about someone actually loading an RC onto the server. You now have a working server, but an empty Hyper-V manager, zero snapshots and no config file backups. In the rush to reinstall, VM’s were not exported, but instead just had their VHD and AVHD files copied…
Following on from a post by John Lufadeju on his blog regarding hosting your Wordpress blog locally, and Robert Bravery’s post on using Wordpress on Vista and IIS 7.0 I thought I’d do the geek thing and go one step further and describe how to setup your own dedicated Linux web server (among other services) running Wordpress for home use, and also to let you know that it is not as difficult as it may seem! I warn you that this post is a long one, but it is bound to be an informative one!
While typing out another post, I figured I’d put in this very quick little post on obtaining your IP address for different operating systems.
This little issue can be quite annoying on any Windows machine. You have a device that suddenly stops working, and device manager just shows you its famed little yellow exclamation mark. When you open the device, you are greeted with the error:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
So, I was using a third party plugin to handle all my social media sharing, which was very cool at first, but it started slowing my site down (as it connected to another site), so a few hours ago I ventured out onto the web trying to find the code to do this all myself.
Every now and again, you come across a machine that has the registry die completely, coupled with an error message along the lines of
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
To restore the registry is relatively easy albeit drawn out, providing Windows Restore is enabled.
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